Recreation For Women Research Articles

Pleasure and danger: a running-woman in ‘public’ space

ABSTRACT The French existentialist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir, long ago signalled the potentially empowering force of outdoor exercise and recreation for women, drawing on feminist phenomenological perspectives. Feminist phenomenological research in sport and exercise, however, remains relatively scarce, and this article contributes to a small, developing research corpus by employing a feminist phenomenological theoretical framework to analyse lived experiences of running in ‘public’ space. As feminist theorists have argued, such space is gendered and contested, and women’s mobility remains constrained by fears of harassment and violent attack. Running also generates intense pleasure, however, and embodied empowerment. Drawing on findings from two separate but linked automethodological running research projects, here I explore salient and overlapping themes cohering around lived experience of pleasure and danger in both urban and rural spaces.

Структура и содержание адаптивной физической рекреации женщин второго периода зрелого возраста с заболеваниями сердечно-сосудистой системы

Abstract. The relevance of the topic of the study is due on the one hand to the wide spread of the disease among the female population of the second mature age period, and on the other, to the significant health effects of physical exercise on the human body. We proposed the structure and content of the adaptive physical recreation technique, justified the effectiveness of its effect. The purpose of the study was to develop the content of classes within the framework of adaptive motor recreation, which contribute to the improvement of the functional state of the body of women with pathologies of the cardiovascular system. The object of the study is the process of adaptive motor recreation of women of the second mature age period. The subject of the study is the content of the method of adaptive motor recreation for women of the second mature age period with cardiovascular diseases. The proposed method of training has stage structure with a certain orientation as well as structure in parts of a specific activities. We carried out the experimental part of the study on the basis of the fitness studio “Happy Dance” (Tambov), where we formed a group of women 35–55 years old with heart and vascular diseases in the initial stage. Recreational activities, including therapeutic gymnastics, have shown their effectiveness, expressed in the gradual improvement of indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate.

10.5937/timsact8-6427 = Swimming as physical activity and recreation for women

The present study reviews all data that establish swimming as an everyday lifestyle and recreational activity for women, since it promotes wellness, well-being and longevity. Swimming as a natural, physical activity is one of the most effective ways of exercise, since it affects and work outs the whole body. It is the most suitable sport for all age groups, because it combines beneficial results, for both body and soul and is also a low-risk-injury physical exercise. Aim of this study is to record the effect of recreational swimming in physical condition indexes and in quality of life in women. In particular to record the benefits, since studies have shown that swimming can help in prevention and treatment of chronic diseases and improves quality of life, of well-being and longevity. Results of all studies showed that swimming, as a great natural recreational activity has multiple beneficial effects on the female body that are not limited to the physical characteristics but are extended to the mental ones. Challenges for the application and development fields of this particular method of exercise, are the quality of service provided and the staffing of departments and programs in multiple carriers, private or public. Researchers and writers agree that there are great prospects for growth for women through partnerships, with programs and systematic research in the field of recreational swimming.

Constraints and Negotiation Processes in a Women's Recreational Sport Group

Although research has found that people prefer to participate in recreation with others, work examining constraints to participation have primarily taken an individual perspective. Thus, this study examined constraints and negotiation strategies in a self-organized women's recreation group. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, informal interviews, and participant observation and were analyzed through a grounded theory approach. The findings highlight six constraint themes that affected the group. The findings describe how the group collectively employed strategies that enabled them to negotiate most constraints and how circumstances shaped the development of negotiation strategies over time. The challenge of delineating constraints strictly into intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural themes is also highlighted.

Girls' and Women's Recreation Programming—Constraints and Opportunities

Girls' and Women's Recreation Programming—Constraints and Opportunities

Books

Abstract The Teenager and Sex. Gail Gleason Milgram. Richards Rosen Press, 21 East 21st St., New York, NY 10010. 1974. 158 pp. Betty Tevis is in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation for Women at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409. Interpersonal Sexuality. David F. Shope, W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19105. 1975. 344 pp. —Reviewed by Richard H. Needle, assistant professor of health education at University of Maryland, College Park Maryland 20742. Freedom and Growth in Marriage. James Leslie McCary. Hamilton Publ. Co., div., John Wiley & Sons, One Wiley Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873. 1975. 420 pp. —Reviewed by Richard H. Needle, assistant professor of health education at University of Maryland, College Park Maryland 20742.

Industrial Recreation for Women

(1922). Industrial Recreation for Women. American Physical Education Review: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 103-113.